| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Contents |
Exam Stress? No Worries! -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface Is this book for you? -- How anxious do you get about exams? -- In need of a quick fix? -- Prefer a permanent cure? -- Twenty-first-century students - a mixed bunch -- This is not another study skills book -- How to use the accompanying CD -- A word of warning -- Part I: Why do some people get anxious and not others? -- Chapter 1: Why exams can make students anxious -- What is anxiety? -- How much anxiety is too much? -- Are you chronically anxious or exam-phobic? -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 2: Why students have different responses to exams -- Patterns -- Borrowed patterns -- Child patterns -- Adult insight -- Scripts -- Script systems -- Putting patterns and scripts together -- Chapter summary -- Part II: Why do I get anxious about exams? -- Chapter 3: Discovering the causes of your exam anxiety -- Centering -- Grounding -- Finding your borrowed patterns -- Finding your child patterns -- Exercises to connect with both borrowed and child patterns -- How much adult insight are you currently using? -- Figuring out your script and its system -- The good news -- Chapter summary -- Part III: How do I get rid of my exam anxiety? -- Chapter 4: How to change your internal bodily experiences -- The effects of exams on your body -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 5: How to change your behaviour -- The effects of exams on your behaviour -- Planning and managing your time -- Planning a study session -- Revising while coping with a crisis or major event in your life -- Look after yourself -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 6: How to change your beliefs and feelings -- The effects of beliefs and feelings on your exams -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 7: How to change your memories and fantasies -- Reinforcing memories -- Reinforcing fantasies -- Chapter summary |
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Part IV: How do I cope with the two big Ps? -- Chapter 8: Coping with perfectionism -- Making sure your goals are not driven by perfectionism -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 9: Stop procrastinating! -- What exactly is procrastination? -- How do you procrastinate? -- Why do you procrastinate? -- The advantages and disadvantages of procrastinating -- Combating procrastination -- Chapter summary -- Part V: But I don't feel like a 'typical' student -- Chapter 10: Special hints for students mixing work or other commitments and study -- Time management is crucial -- Patterns, script systems and the busy student -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 11: Special hints for off-campus students -- Don't drop out! -- Time management for off-campus students -- Studying in isolation -- Communicating with those close to you -- Patterns, script systems and the off-campus student -- Extra hints for off-campus students -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 12: Special hints for mature-age students -- Options of entry for mature-age students -- Special issues for mature-age students -- Some research on mature-age students -- Patterns, scripts and the mature-age student -- Extra hints for mature-age students -- A final word for mature-age students -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 13: Special hints for international students -- Dealing with homesickness -- Typical pressures on international students -- Adjustment takes time -- Patterns, script systems and the international student -- Extra hints for international students -- Chapter summary -- Chapter 14: Special hints for students who have migrated to Australia or who come from migrant families -- The good news! -- Patterns, script systems and the migrant student -- Extra hints for migrant students -- Chapter summary -- Part VI: My exams have arrived! -- Chapter 15: Final advice -- Chapter summary -- Further reading -- Index |
| Summary |
Su Dorland is a psychologist and counsellor specialising in helping students with exam anxiety. Throughout her studies she has been a mature-age, off-campus and part-time student, and has discovered how to conquer her own anxieties |
| Notes |
ProQuest Ebook Central ATO Loan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Subject |
Examinations -- Psychological aspects
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Stress management
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Examinations -- Psychological aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| LC no. |
2010481118 |
| ISBN |
9780730375968 |
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